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Dissemination

Current publications and presentations in this area by members of the research team:

Presentation to MIGRATIONS, MOBILITIES, CITIZENSHIP: DIALOGUES ACROSS BOUNDARIES (Powerpoint presentation)
Workshop co-organized by CCIG and CRESC, The Open University, Milton Keynes
31st October 2007


Conference presentations

Members of the team have recently attended and given papers at several key conferences. These papers draw on the first transcribed interviews with excerpts supporting arguments being developed from the data.

If you would like to comment on the content of any of these papers or presentations please use the discussion group http://www.open.ac.uk/forums/hsc-sag/index.php or contact Leroi Henry.

‘Migrant clustering: the role of patronage networks in South Asian medical migrants' labour market participation in the UK’, Joint Conference of Bristol University's Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship and UCL's Migration Research Unit, 15-16 May, 2008, University College London. Download presentation (ppt). Download paper (pdf).

'"Don't mix race with the specialty" (retired South Asian consultant geriatrician): interviewing South Asian overseas-trained geriatricians’, Oral History Annual conference, 4-5 July 2008, Centre for History of Medicine, University of Birmingham. Paper to be submitted to Oral History following the conference. Download presentation (ppt). Download paper (pdf).

‘Age as professional and personal transition: UK and South Asia qualified geriatricians reflect on their lives’ in the session ‘Theorising Life Transitions’ at the Annual Conference of the Institute of British Geographers/Royal Geographical Society London, 28-29 August 2008. (Download presentation (ppt))

‘Hospitals as a microcosm of global learning: South Asian overseas-trained doctors working in the geriatric specialty’ in the session ‘Spaces of Learning’, at the Annual Conference of the Institute of British Geographers/Royal Geographical Society London, 28-29 August 2008. (Download presentation (ppt))

‘Study as work: the role of “training" in the lives of medical migrants to the UK’, European Regional Studies Association, 30 August, University of Liverpool. (Download presentation (ppt))

‘Living and working “in someone else's home": overseas-trained South Asian geriatricians’ reflections on their experiences in the UK health system’, Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology, 4/6 September, University of the West of England. (Download presentation (ppt))


Papers

In print:

Bornat, J. Henry, L. and Raghuram, P. (2009) ‘Don’t Mix Race With The Specialty’: Interviewing South Asian Overseas- trained Geriatricians, Oral History Journal, 74-84.

Raghuram, P. Bornat, J. and Henry, L.(2009) Ethnic clustering among South Asian geriatricians in the UK – an oral history study, Diversity in Health and Care, 6, 4, 287-296.

Bornat, J. Henry, L & Raghuram, P. (2008) Overseas-trained South Asian doctors and the development of Geriatric Medicine. Generations Review. 18 (3) http://www.britishgerontology.org/08newsletter3/education_careers.asp

Accepted for publication

Raghuram, P. Henry, L and Bornat, J. Difference and distinction? Non-migrant and migrant networks (Sociology)

Under consideration

Bornat, J., Henry, L. and Raghuram, P. 'Geriatric medicine and the management of transitions into old age: the hospital bed as a site of spatial practice'?,  Area

Raghuram, P. Bornat, J. and Henry, L. The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant workers' contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK, Sociology of Health and Illness

Papers presented

Academic

(2009) Overseas-trained South Asian doctors and the geriatric specialty: a necessary partnership ‘faute de mieux’? University of Manchester, 24 June.

(2009) Hearing and not hearing: using the idea of polyphony to explore the role of voice in interviews exploring inter-cultural relationships in the workplace, Oral History Conference, Glasgow, July 3-4.

(2009) Revisiting the archives - opportunities and challenges: a case study from the history of Geriatric Medicine ESRC seminar series on Career Migration Seminar 5: Migration for Career Opportunity, Growth and Development 19 June 2009 University of Warwick.

(2009) Elite migration and experiences in the workplace: the intersection of race and class for south Asian trained geriatricians in the UK, BSA annual conference, Cardiff, 16 April.

(2009) Panel discussant ‘Postcolonial Migration’ 22-27 March, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas.

(2009) Redefining transitions in a professional biography: the migrant doctor's story, HSC Professional Biographies and Identities seminar, 21 January, Open University.

(2008) Revisiting the archives - opportunities and challenges: a case study from the history of geriatric medicine, Royal Holloway College, 26 November; Also presented at Centre for Ageing and Biographical Studies and Centre for Policy on Ageing, Seminar 12 in the series The Representation of Older People in Ageing Research, 12 December, Centre for Policy on Ageing, London.

(2008) Biographical interviews in a marginalised specialty: the case of South Asian overseas trained geriatricians, Biographical studies centre, The Open University, 8 October.

(2008) The role of patronage networks in South Asian medical migrants' labour market participation in the UK, ESRC RAIKE seminar series The Open University, 12 November.

(2008) Marking the ageing body: migrant workers' contribution to geriatric care in the UK, Bodywork, ESRC Seminar Series, 24 October.

Press coverage

‘Forgotten Histories’, Sushruta, magazine of the British Association of the Physicians of Indian Origin. P. 12, January 2008, ‘Forgotten Histories’, Sushruta, magazine of the British Association of the Physicians of Indian Origin. P. 12

Scunthorpe Telegraph November 9, 2009.
‘Scunthorpe GP honoured for elderly care’, also available at:
http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/news/Scunthorpe-GP-honoured-pioneering-elderly-care/article-1493525-detail/article.html

Independent November 3, 2009
‘A tribute to the efforts of South Asian doctors’

Business Weekly, November 4, 2009
‘OU highlights NHS contribution of South Asian doctors’, also available at:
http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/2009110435786/academia/research/open-university-highlights-contribution-of-south-asian-doctors.html

Malini Sen
The Times of India, December 7, 2009
'Those who dare to care'

Michael Broad
Editor Hospital Doctor,
‘South Asian doctors deserve recognition for their contribution’, available at:
http://www.hospitaldr.co.uk/blogs/features/south-asian-doctors-deserve-recognition-for-their-contribution

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